The Genius Plant Clip You Need To Turn Your Greenery Into A Stunning Display

Houseplants can make a room feel more lively and cheerful thanks to their bright colors. Once you adopt plants as your personality and house decor aesthetic, you'll be on the prowl for ways to cram them into every nook and cranny in your home. Some spaces, like stair and balcony guard rails, can be difficult to work with. These spaces hold plenty of potential, but what can hold those plants? Placing plants on the handrail may make them sit too high, and waiting for hanging plants to get long enough to cover the railing can take too long. Fortunately, Plant Traps on Instagram invented a solution to this problem with RailScapes, a nifty plant hanger that fits anywhere you want them on the railing.

RailScapes are a convenient way to incorporate more plants into your space. They're designed to "disappear" to give your plants a floating appearance. If you choose plants that spread enough to cascade down, you can hide the entire pot and give the illusion of floating plants. These are perfect for various small to medium potted plants and will help you fill in empty spaces caused by railings.

RailScapes offers an ingenious way to display your prized plants. The clip is made of wires that stretch out between balusters to hold a plant. The top is round and has a triangle base. The entire clip is one piece and doesn't involve any latches or fasteners, thanks to the design of the indentions that go on the balusters. Situate the indentions around one baluster, squeeze the clip until it can fit around the second, and then release it. The clip will be secured into place from the pressure of the wires against the balusters. Then, you can place your plant inside.

The plant clip comes in two sizes: one for narrow balusters measuring 0.5-0.75 inches in diameter and one for thick rails measuring 1.25-1.5 inches. The downside of RailScapes is that, at the time of publishing, they didn't have any designed for 2-inch balusters or larger. But for those who can use this product, you can use plants that weigh up to 25 pounds. RailScapes advises keeping plants above 15 pounds at the bottom of the rails for extra support.

These plant clips are designed to be easy to install and hassle-free to care for. They're resistant to wind and rust and won't tilt forward, allowing you to use them outdoors without worrying about storms tearing them off your railing. Watch for how much water or snow they hold since there's a weight limit. Drainage holes will prevent these problems.

There's a lot of creative freedom with these plant clips. Since they fit between two balusters, they don't take up much room, allowing you to place several on one railing wall. You can have them lining your stairwell so there's a plant on nearly every step. Thanks to the design, these will even work on most spiral staircases. You can place them as high or low as you'd like on the balusters, giving you a variety of plants to work with. If you place the clips low, you can choose short plants like young snake plants or thyme. If you choose the middle of the railing, moderately cascading plants like petunias will have a beautiful drape that partially covers the pot. Place the clip at the top of the balusters for trailing plants like ivy.

You can also use RailScapes for vegetable gardening, but you'll need to stick to small and dwarf plant varieties and be mindful of the weight limit. The plant clips can help you grow small plants like radishes, onions, peppers, strawberries, and herbs. Find a determinate cherry tomato variety that won't reach more than a couple of feet tall, and harvest the fruit often to alleviate some of the weight.